The Sovereign Slacker

Friday, May 3, 2013

Whether or not you support the next government restriction, you will be less free. You will have fewer choices. You will have less individuality. You will have less pride. You will have less power. Your voice will not ring as loud. Your world will be smaller. You will be smaller.

Push back. Be free. If you cannot find a way, help someone else to be.

Saturday, January 5, 2013

With so many folks racing into the warm smothering arms of government, the freedom hating vultures in congress are circling with ever more zeal, searching for the next freedom or dollar to snatch away. With so many leftist anti-gun politicians dancing in the blood of slain children, we are left to wonder what we can do to protect our gun rights.

There are two very constructive things we can do today;

1. Write your House Representative and both of your Senators. It's easy, and they need to hear your voice. Use the links at the right, or just go to house.gov and senate.gov. It only takes a few minutes.

2. Join the NRA. It is the strongest force protecting the 2nd Amendment, which is why it is constantly badmouthed by leftists on NPR, CNN, MSNBC, etc. The NRA is our voice as free people. Remember, anytime Biden or Obama slam the NRA, they are slamming us, the citizens of America. If you're already a member, start making payments towards a life membership like I did when Obama was first elected. Every time he or his mainstream media get extra uppity I make another payment towards my life membership - which means I'm very close now.

Screw the government and all those who would seek to use it as a bludgeon against our freedoms.

Thursday, November 8, 2012

“Storm’s getting worse,” said River.“We’ll pass through it soon enough,” the captain replied.

It’s a tough time to be a freedom loving individual, thanks to the goings-on in
government, but in both bad times and good we need to remind ourselves what we
stand for, and from where we derive our faith.Our happiness doesn’t come from D.C.; America is not found in its government.Our reason for living is in God, family, and
friends; never in politics. That's for the dirty damn Marxists, for whom
everything’s political.The modern
leftist seems to think every encroachment of government upon the individual
which reflects their own personal convictions is a victory.Might still doesn’t make right, though.Politics can never be better than a sordid compromise,
and at its worst, tyranny.Leftists can
hang all their hopes on politics, and force government into every facet of our
lives, but this only turns them into the fascists they claim to hate, and they
will be ultimately disappointed – just witness the aging leftist nihilist.They’ve sold themselves to the government,
and for them will there only ever be a whore’s reward.All the political victories in the world will
never be enough.

For us, though, is Life and
Liberty.Freedom.Maybe it’s not selling so well this
year.Maybe it’s flat out getting its
butt kicked.Doesn’t mean it ain’t the
best show on earth.

“May have been the losing
side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one,” said Captain Reynolds.

Hell’s to the yeah!

Remember, kids, in real life, sometimes even the good guys lose.That’s when you pick yourself up, dust yourselves
off, and get right back to living the good life.Grab yer guns and Bibles and all those books
on freedom.Jefferson, Mises, Popper, Rothbard,
Heinlein, Locke, Rand, Hayek, and Bastiat – everything’s on the table.We’re gonna need a lot of good reading
material to get us past this dark night, but just remember what Bill Whittle says – you
only get to be Churchill when the times are dark.

“You had the Alliance on you, criminals
and savages... Half the people on the ship have been shot or wounded including
yourself, and you're harboring known fugitives,” Simon observed.“Well, we're still flying,” answered
Mal. “That's not much,” said Simon.“It's enough”.

Oh, and to all my fellow Right-Wingers who think this is the time to throw a
pity party, just ask yourselves:WWGPAJWACKD*?

Probably something awesome, that’s what.So cheer the hell up, and get back to doing what we do best: God,
family, and friends.

And, just so’s we all leave here today with the right attitude:

*What Would General Patton And John
Wayne And Captain Kirk Do?

(h/t to Jonah Goldberg for posting
that Deadwood clip on his blog within minutes of the bad presidential election
news, and thus snapping me out of a potentially embarrassing sad panda parade)

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Giving criminals exclusive access to drugs is a fairly benign act, IF you're okay with the whole part where it denies individuals the basic right to choose what they do with their own bodies. Giving criminals exclusive access to guns, though - are you freakin' kiddin' me? Seriously, what sort of evil sadist does that?

Next time you start whining about how "society" somehow lets bad
people do bad things, think about how much better it would've felt - not
to mention how much more productive - to have been there on that
terrible night in that Colorado theater and to have put a bullet through
that sick psycho's idiotic gas mask.

If you wanna help humanity out, how's about spreading the philosophy of individual empowerment? Or of self reliance and the active defense of the innocents around you?

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

I finally went to the movies to see "Act of Valor". I seldom go to the movies, preferring instead to wait for them to come to Turner Classics. In this particular case, I shouldn't have waited so long. It was absolutely phenomenal. By snubbing the cocktail commies and snob socialists of elitist Hollywood, opting instead to cast actual active duty Navy SEALs, the filmmakers achieved a realism that I personally have never experienced in a war movie - and I love war movies. Real life heroes of the highest order portraying heroes on film. It has been done before - Audie Murphy, may God bless him, portrayed himself in "To Hell and Back"; Harold Russell turned in a staggeringly moving performance in "The Best Years of Our Lives". "Act of Valor", however, has heroes in spades. I've seen a few mainstream reviews describing the performances as thin and wooden. To those big-shot big-city movie critics, I would recommend they spend some time in real America, with real Americans. I would also recommend they get real jobs.

There is yet another element to the appeal of "Act of Valor". War films too seldom include the reasons why we fight, often opting instead for cheap sexual interludes thinly veiled as romance. I'll put 10 to your 5 that "Pearl Harbor" illustrates the point nicely, though I haven't bothered to watch it. "Black Hawk Down", "Saving Private Ryan", "Band of Brothers", and "The Pacific", all great modern war movies, but all fail in what I feel to be the critical element of a Great American War Movie. It is here that "Act of Valor" doubles down on pure awesomeness. The soldiers are fighting for their country and their families and for the flag that symbolizes the greatest freedom and prosperity the world has ever known. Period. "Act of Valor" is a stunning tribute to the members of our beloved armed forces who have been willing to lay down their lives so that the innocent folks back home wouldn't have to.

I do not have the honor of signing off here with the Navy SEAL motto, so I will instead think back to the Sailor's Creed, as we recited it way back in basic training:

I am a United States Sailor.

I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America and I will obey the orders of my superiors.

I represent the fighting spirit of the Navy and all who have gone before me to defend freedom and democracy around the world.

I proudly serve my country's Navy combat team with Honor, Commitment, and Courage.

I am committed to excellence and the fair treatment of all.

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I would be remiss if I did not give a hat tip to Bill Whittle and his PJTV video "Han Shot First!", for bringing my attention to this movie. I don't keep up with new movies, and might've missed this one entirely. Check out his film production project, "Declaration Entertainment", and support his efforts to bring meaningful non-Hollywood films to the big screen.

"Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure and their blood."- John Adams

"The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets."- Lysander Spooner

"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind." - Thomas Jefferson